It seemed innocent enough. The Baltimore Sun runs a story, Money Wasters To Avoid, offering readers various ways to save some money during these challenging times. The piece included the usual money-saving tips like eat out less, wash your own car, rent DVD's instead of buying them, and a few more abstract ones like don't speed because tickets are expensive, you burn more gas and if you're caught your insurance premiums will go up.All sounds good. But then they included the almighty book."Some books are nice to have - like your favorite one, for example. But really, buying the newest...
Folger Shakespeare Exihibt
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BoysRead.org is on a Mission to Transform Boys into Lifelong Readers
Here are the cold facts:America's boys are the most violent in the industrialized world. 50% of all minority male students drop out of school. 87% of boys play explicitly violent video games. 92% of convicted violent felons are male. Seattle-based BoysRead.org is an organization of parents, educators, librarians, mentors, author that believes that "male literacy is part of the solution."In 2004 the NEA study, "Reading at Risk: a Survey of Literary Reading in America," found that reading by young men plummeted from 55 percent to 43 percent; by working to develop a lifelong passion for reading in boys, which includes...
The Open and Closed World of Maurizio Nannucci
Multiple. Object. "Book" bound on both vertical edges, the two volumes face to face. Full dark blue leather binding. Inside a marbelized cardboard slipcase. 18.5x11.7 cm. On the two spines, stars and title printed gold. Bianconero, Rome, 1969. Unspecified edition size.In the age of DRM and the seemingly constant assault on "the book" from all corners it is a good time to revisit the book work of Italian artist Maurizio Nannucci. It was 40 years ago when Maurizio Nannucci created Universum, a book art piece consisting of two volumes bound in blue leather and housed in a slipcase. The books...
Book Patrol Digest : Links From the Week, May 17-23, 2009
Toni Morrison's 'Song of Solomon' removed from high school curriculum in Shelby, MI after after "members of the community objected to its profanity, sexual references and violence."Romance writer Nora Roberts' opens B&B-style boutique hotel with rooms named after fictional couplesScribd adds e-book marketplace to combat piracy complaints. 80 percent of revenue to go to publishersSchool Library Journal's "Top 100 Picture Books Poll Results"Supreme Court rejects appeal from John Steinbeck's son over publishing rights."Misreading the end of literary culture" Robert McCrum debunks 5 myths.Forrest Smith pleads guilty to book fraud. Forged authors signatures and sold them on Ebay.'MillionDollarPoetryBash' Spoonbill & Sugartown...